For anybody who's been glued to ITV's new drama, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, which details the elaborate death faking scam (complete with canoe) of prison officer John Darwin, aided by his wife ...

On 21 March 2002, Hartlepool prison officer John Darwin went out in his canoe. When he missed his shift at work and didn’t return home, the alarm was raised and there was a huge search operation. He ...

Based on true events, ITV’s The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe tells the story of how a Hartlepool couple facing mounting debts faked a death in an attempt to fraudulently claim pension and insurance ...

ITV’s The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe charts the unbelievable true story of John and Anne Darwin, a notorious Hartlepool couple who faked a death to fraudulently claim pension and insurance money.

Anne Darwin looks completely different now to the miserable figure we saw after the fake canoe death scam was exposed. There was no mistaking Anne when she was led into court with her bright white bob ...

The wife of a man who was missing for five years says she knew he was alive and that a photo of the two taken last year in Panama was authentic, British newspapers reported Thursday. Anne Darwin's ...

JAILED canoe wife Anne Darwin will rush straight into the arms of her husband John when freed in a few days – despite claiming that they would divorce over the scam. Anne, 59, was given six and a half ...

If for nothing else, we should be grateful to John and Anne Darwin for bringing the excellent word pseudocide back into wider public use. For those who don’t follow the British press as closely as ...

John and Anne Darwin were in trouble. Of that there is no doubt. But their plan for putting things right went extraordinarily wrong. Swamped by money problems and facing ruin, John Darwin cooked up a ...

John and Anne Darwin's daring attempt at swindling life insurance money is so bizarre it felt like something straight off the telly. So naturally it was only a matter of time before The Thief, His ...

It's almost hard to believe that The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is a true story, but as with many real-life TV dramas, reality can be as mind-bending as fiction. It's the story of how, back 2002, ...

The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe might have come to an end, but John and Anne Darwin remain in the spotlight tonight (April 21) as ITV airs a new documentary about the real-life couple behind the ...